Manual Nursing
It isn't really a natural procedure. Every female dog must be able to raise her own litter, without human intervention. Nevertheless, there are times in which we must assume the labor of manually bringing up (baby bottle, etc.) a litter, and in these cases there have also been excellent results; so much so that some have even been champions.
It is impossible to give you precise feeding hours. Newborn puppies, nourished by their mother, only eat when they're hungry and sleep the rest of the time. But the meals must be very frequent in the first weeks of life: every two hours during a day, and every four during the night. After that, stretch it out to every three hours during today and only once during the night. The first meal of the day must be administered at daybreak, finally reducing the meals to for a day, without any at night, although starting, in the same way as the four, at dawn.
The diet consists in natural food, fresh, raw towel or goat milk watered in the water that comes from oat flakes that have been put to soak the night before, and to this mix add honey. For every cup of milk, add 2 teaspoons of old lake water, 1 teaspoon of honey and a couple of drops of almond or corn oil. Add then one egg yolk, but only twice a day and not every day. The oil is necessary because the milk of the mother is richer in fat than that of the cow or goat. Do not use sheep milk as it is too greasy for puppies. Chamomile infusion is a tranquilizer: use it when you soak the oat flakes. Use a small baby bottle with a rubber nipple with a tiny hole at the extreme. There are many animals that have been manually brought up with the same kind of diet, not only dogs and cats, but also young goats, lambs, owls and hawks. Puppies should also have barley water; you must give it to them several times a day because it possesses soft laxative properties and is a tranquilizer. The way to repair it is by pouring hot water (not voiding) on the whole-wheat barley and leave it soaking all night long and in the morning pass it through a muslin cloth.
